Attu Raiders Battle Draws Mixed Reports From Navy
Sleet snow and rain hampered Allied forces on Attu while Japanese remnants were pressured back. A Sunday air raid by 16 twin engine bombers saw Army Lightning fighters likely destroy seven attackers, with six dispersing the rest. Navy noted continued western Attu advance despite weather as Knox called the battle ongoing and denied enemy claims of sinking U S ships.
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Washington
Attu Island
Navy
Attu
Aleutian
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Kuj Rile Islands
Paramusure
Kuriles
Red Cross meeting and social visits noted
A Red Cross meeting is planned at the home of Mrs Cyrus Spicer on a fall day tomorrow. Miss Mabel Johnson of Worcester Mass visits Mrs Edith North. Lynn Brown of Mount Vernon spent the weekend with his sister Mrs Mabel Nelsen.
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Red Cross
Cyrus Spicer
Mabel Johnson
Worcester
Mass
Edith North
Lynn Brown
Mount Vernon
Mabel Nelsen
Trojans Named On Committee For War Emergency Campaign
Julius Goodman and Maurice D Isenberg have joined the War Emergency Campaign Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board. Carl M Loeb of New York chairs. Local figures Jacob R Weiss Lews Rubin and Fried A Glas are named with the Troy Jewish Community Center leadership. Former G A R chief Edwin Moris dies at 96 days after expressing intent to join Memorial Day parade.
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Julius Goodman
Maurice D. Isenburgh
National Jewish Welfare Board
Carl M. Loeb
New York
Jewish Welfare Board
Jacob R. Weiss
Army and Navy
Lews Rubin
Fried A. Glas
Jewish Community Center of
Troy
Eimua
Edwin Moris
New York State
G. A
Elmiras
Fire and health programs in Hoosick Falls outline today events
Hoosick Falls schedules a citywide fire training course in cooperation with state and federal offices, with a 7 30 p m start at Seth Parsons Steamer House and new officers named. A diphtheria and smallpox clinic operates at Mai Street School in the afternoon led by local and state physicians to protect war workers and students. A spring supper at North Hoosick Methodist Church offers prizes for top commercial students, while local soldiers from the area head to training camps and mourners attend a Baptist rummage sale and school funding notices.
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Hoosick
Albany
Seth Parsons
Jono J. Shea
George Peer
Mai Street
George E. Smith
Robert E. Maderer
Fred Harter
Im Baptist Memorial Hall
Woman's Society of the First Baptist Church
Floyd D Taylor
Board of Education
Avery G. Hal
Union Free School District No. 1
Hoosick Falls High School
Wardens to Meet in Lansing Theater Building
The 11th District Air Raid Wardens Social Club will meet Thursday night at rooms in the Lansing Theater building. President Leslie Weaver says plans will be made to form a softball club and a social will follow.
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11Th District
Lansing
Leslie Weaver
Rensselaer Man Receives WWII Heroism Citation
Vincent J. Vecciarelli, 21, of 11 Glen Street Rensselaer, received a letter of commendation for heroism on Tulegt Teland during the Solomons initial assault on August 7, 1942. Corporal Vecciarelli kept a radio working under extremely heavy enemy fire, per an Associated Press dispatch from Washington.
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Mepto Japs
Attu Raiders
Potter Hill
P.S
By Edwin Cox
IIS Office
New JeRsey
Charles Edison
Frank Phillips
Owa Gare
Trojans
Hoosick Falls
North Hoosick Methodist Church
Joseph Reinfort
Governor’s Island
Leo Kempf
Fort Meade
William E. Allard
Greensboro
N. C
Joseph Baitosk
Topeka
Kanto
Mon Bartoski
Gene Albergine
George Brownell
Ordon Allen
Hugh Smith
John Potts
Army Reserve Corps
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Camp Upton
Chrysler Corporation
Air Service
Army
SYRO
Merchant Marine
Chicago
Heras
Iceland
Guadalcanal
South America
India
Russia
General Electric
Westinghouse
Chrys
Marne
Rentemiers
Plymouth
Dopce
Desoto
Chrysler
Eld
Rensselaer
Restat MT
Resintone
Trey
Emery Albany
Menands, N. Y
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